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Forcing 2560x1440 on a 1920x1080 monitor


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Having a monitor downscale will not hurt it, nor will upscaling hurt it. But you cannot run a higher res then is rated for a monitor. It's just not possible, the pixels aren't there to allow the resolution increase. Your GPU may allow it run higher, but the monitor will downscale or not even be able to display it.

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I believe you can set a custom resolution in Catalyst Control Center for AMD GPUs. There should be an equivalent on the NVIDIA line...

 

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The best option is to disable the up supported resolutions in the control panel.

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As Black pointed out, regardless of how many pixels the gpu is trying to send to the monitor, the monitor can only display the maximum number of pixels as determined by it's native maximum resolution.

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if you have a CRT when you use a VGA cable it scales so it doesnt matter

with current technology there is absolutely no reason to do run a higher resolution than your monitor can display

all you are doing is forcing the video scaler to do extra work

this is all automatic now, you would have to manually force a higher resoultion to display in the first place and is a waste of time

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